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Driverless Cars - Another Piece Of The Puzzle: Comments on "Driverless Cars will Make Passenger Rail Obsolete," by Yair Wiseman (June 2019)

Teresa Galvao Dias (Author)

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
Volume: 38
Issue: 2
Pages: 36-38
Publication date: June 2019
Language: English

DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2019.2913070

Publication Date: June 2019
Edition Details: Magazine Department: Opinion

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Commentaries Railroads Technology and society Land transportation Autonomous vehicles Automobiles Transportation Streetcars Automation 21st century

The impact of driverless cars is being increasingly discussed, with numerous scholars and experts trying to predict the future of cities when this technology becomes widespread adopted. While driverless cars present, in several scenarios, some clear advantages compared to human-driven cars, they rise a number of challenges that should be faced carefully and objectively. The article "Driverless Cars will Make Passenger Rails Obsolete" predicts the replacement of passenger rails with driverless cars. Wiseman does not clarify the time horizon for this scenario to become a reality, but we believe it can only happen in the long term. First, "driverless cars" correspond to level 5 of automation, in which the car is fully automated under all roadway and environmental conditions that can be managed by a human driver. Most experts acknowledge that significant technical progress is needed before Level 5 automation is reliable, tested, and approved. Second, the term "passenger rail" includes all public transport running on rails.

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Article Yair Wiseman (2019) Driverless Cars Will Make Passenger Rail Obsolete [Opinion]. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine (pp. 22-27). unapi

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